Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] AUCTeX 11.84 released

[snip] David> If there was _any_ interest in getting my concerns about David> that addressed, I could offer to phrase a request to the David> copyright clerk at the FSF and have it double-checked by David> Stephen before sending it off, or Stephen could do this David> himself. I don't think that this offer could possibly be David> considered a threat unless parties here are not as utterly David> convinced of my lunacy as they put it, since it would place David> the question out of my and into competent hands. For me this would be fine, but honestly I have no strong opinions concerns about that point and prefer to leave this decisions to others. [snip] David> Actually not: preview-latex is not distributed separately David> anymore, so as opposed to the old 11.55, people would no David> longer have the option to install manually what the XEmacs David> package system omitted. Right, but at least you would not get outdated bug reports, I am anyhow not sure that such a version will be so much easier to compile but I might try just out of curiosity. David> Speaking for myself personally, I have to say no: the David> interest of the AUCTeX team is still rather with helping David> rather than abandoning XEmacs users. Of course, it is David> annoying to get reports for ancient packages, but the David> solution is telling people to upgrade, not leaving them in David> the dark. Well but if the relevant address were changed you wouldn't get such reports wouldn't you? David> I disagree here. People wanting to use AUCTeX will find how David> to come by it. Note that AUCTeX has not been activated by David> default in the standard XEmacs setup IIRC because people David> might prefer the "builtin" TeX mode. At least in the David> AUCTeX's package, this has been changed and we have added a David> way to turn AUCTeX off if one so desires. I disagree here. There is a difference to add (require 'tex-site) or the like to a .emacs file than to try to install even a complied Xemacs package which you offer. I presume we simply are thinking of different users here. Especially users of the MS Windows environment are not used to unpack packages in some directories they don't know. Believe me there are a lot of users still using (La)TeX but they are not hackers at all. Anyhow I don't want to start a flamewar on this but to start to synchronise. Let us hope the best (any help would be appreciate as always.) Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta